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Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev


Born
in Oryol, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
November 09, 1818

Died
September 03, 1883

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).

These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli
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Fathers and Sons

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First Love

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Mumu

3.78 avg rating — 11,125 ratings — published 1852 — 2 editions
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album

3.96 avg rating — 9,102 ratings — published 1852 — 738 editions
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Spring Torrents

3.95 avg rating — 5,802 ratings — published 1872 — 3 editions
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Home of the Gentry

3.92 avg rating — 5,635 ratings — published 1859 — 4 editions
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Rudin

3.78 avg rating — 4,758 ratings — published 1856 — 2 editions
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Diary of a Superfluous Man

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On the Eve

3.83 avg rating — 4,179 ratings — published 1860 — 26 editions
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Asya

3.96 avg rating — 3,833 ratings — published 1858 — 5 editions
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Quotes by Ivan Turgenev  (?)
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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin

Polls

July 2016 Old School Classic Poll

 
  51 votes, 23.2%

 
  46 votes, 20.9%

 
  25 votes, 11.4%

1857, The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, 269 pages
 
  23 votes, 10.5%

1862, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 244 pages
 
  20 votes, 9.1%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
 
  20 votes, 9.1%

 
  19 votes, 8.6%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 201 pages
 
  9 votes, 4.1%

1862, Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert, 288 pages
 
  7 votes, 3.2%

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